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  • Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable. -- Father Damien
  • You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, 'Well done. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
  • Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament -- Henry Suso
  • And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use. -- Martin Chemnitz
  • Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the Living Heart of each of our parishes -- Pope Paul VI
  • We must visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament a hundred thousand times a day. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it. -- Mercedes McCambridge
  • I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it -- Mercedes McCambridge
  • Our soul can find in the Blessed Sacrament all the joys and consolations it desires. -- Teresa of Avila
  • Every time we look at the Blessed Sacrament our place in heaven is raised forever. -- Gertrude the Great
  • I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament... -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. -- C. S. Lewis
  • The Most Blessed Sacrament is Christ made visible. The poor sick person is Christ again made visible. -- Gerard Majella
  • Don't be afraid to go to the Sacrament of Confession, where you will meet Jesus who forgives you. -- Pope Francis
  • Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing, -- Saint Peter
  • The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord's Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love. -- Katharine Drexel
  • My greatest happiness is to be before the Blessed Sacrament, where my heart is, as it were, in Its center. -- Margaret Mary Alacoque
  • The daily adoration or visit to the Blessed Sacrament is the practice which is the fountainhead of all devotional works -- Pope Pius X
  • O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
  • In the presence of Jesus in the Holy Sacrament we ought to be like the Blessed in heaven before the Divine Essence -- Teresa of Avila
  • The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life -- Pope Leo XIII
  • God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament. -- Evelyn Underhill
  • The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God. -- Pope John Paul II
  • Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them -- Peter of Alcantara
  • I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, -- Mother Teresa
  • Our Redeemer ever present in the most Blessed Sacrament, extends His hands to everyone. He opens His heart and says, 'Come to Me, all of you.' -- Raphael Kalinowski
  • Always remain close to the Catholic Church, because it alone can give you true peace, since it alone possesses Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, the true Prince of Peace. -- Pio of Pietrelcina
  • I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too. -- Henri Nouwen
  • Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us. -- Alphonsus Liguori
  • Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members group themselves around our Emmanuel. -- Peter Julian Eymard
  • The best, the surest and the most effective way of establishing PEACE on the face of the earth is through the great power of Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. -- Pope John Paul II
  • The long nights that Pier Giorgio Frassati spent on his knees in front of the Blessed Sacrament had something to do with the long days spent in service of the poor. -- Robert Barron
  • O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by. -- Saint Augustine
  • Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what love demands: one thing only, reciprocity... -- Mary Faustina Kowalska
  • Female beauty in an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am no sure at all that the neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind. -- Robertson Davies
  • Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week. -- Pope John Paul II
  • The Blessed Sacrament is the first and supreme object of our worship. We must preserve in the depths of our hearts a constant and uninterrupted profound adoration of this precious pledge of Divine Love. -- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
  • If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament. -- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
  • I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often! -- Teresa of Avila
  • May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar -- Pope John Paul II
  • Our Lord Himself I saw in this venerable Sacrament . . . I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter at the touch of the Divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul! -- Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You! -- Alphonsus Liguori
  • United with the angels and saints of the heavenly Church, let us adore the most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist. Prostrate, we adore this great mystery that contains God's new and definitive covenant with humankind in Christ. -- Pope John Paul II
  • Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit. -- Johannes Tauler
  • What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy? -- Solanus Casey
  • Father of mercy and God of all consolation, graciously look upon me and impart to me the blessing which flows from this holy Sacrament. Overshadow me with Your loving kindness, and let this divine Mystery bear fruit in me. -- Saint Blaise
  • It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species. -- Pope John Paul II
  • The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we share the ultimate purpose of God, made real for us now in our hearing the Word and sharing the Sacrament. -- Rowan Williams
  • Answer on being asked her opinion of Christ's presence in the Sacrament. 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it; And what the word did make it That I believe, and take it. -- Elizabeth I
  • If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude. -- Angela of Foligno
  • Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated. -- Saint Augustine
  • To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament of the Altar to give audience to all. All who desire You always find You there, and converse with You face to face -- Teresa of Avila
  • Confession is something we will never outgrow, even if we become the saints God made us to be. Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were revered even during their lifetime; but both made frequent use of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. -- Donald Wuerl
  • Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth. -- Peter Julian Eymard
  • You may be sure that of all the moments of your life, the time you spend before the divine Sacrament will be that which will give you more strength during life and more consolation at the hour of your death and during eternity -- Alphonsus Liguori
  • God is everywhere, in the very air I breathe, yes everywhere, but in His Sacrament of the Altar He is as present actually and really as my soul within my body; in His Sacrifice daily offered as really as once offered on the Cross -- Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament "¦ There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer. -- Mother Teresa
  • As far as possible, you should pray in quiet and silent devotion. Try to have a favorite topic of prayer, such as a devotion to the passion of Jesus, the Blessed Sacrament, awareness of the divine presence; go directly to Jesus without too much fuss. -- Peter Julian Eymard
  • I hope that this form of Adoration, with permanent exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, will continue into the future. Specifically, I hope that the fruit of this Congress results in the establishment of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration in all parishes and Christian communities throughout the world -- Pope John Paul II
  • I don't think you want to preach to people. I don't think In A Valley Of Violence, and the same with The Sacrament, there's a social commentary and a political element to both the films, but it's not like, "Think this because I think this." -- Ti West
  • O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You in the Sacrament which You left to us on the eve of Your Passion, as the testimony of the excess of Your love! -- Columba Marmion
  • How I loved the feasts!.... I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God!... I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred Monstrance... -- Therese of Lisieux
  • Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself! -- Johannes Tauler
  • How happy I will be if I keep my heart free from attachment to anyone, and chained to Jesus, my God, alone... I will devote all my efforts to this end... I will go before the Blessed Sacrament, and there sign these resolutions with my blood. -- Peter Julian Eymard
  • The faith I have when I am in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament is so strong that I find it impossible to express what I feel... When the time comes to leave I must force myself to overcome the inclination to prolong my stay with Jesus. -- Anthony Mary Claret
  • I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament. He has been tutoring me from my most tender years. -- Mary Faustina Kowalska
  • I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion. -- Dorothy Parker
  • This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we could only see You clearly as they do, with what reverence would we approach this Sacrament, with what humility would we receive You. -- Angela of Foligno
  • Voting is a civic sacrament. -- Theodore Hesburgh
  • Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. -- Florynce Kennedy
  • Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans. -- Christine Pelosi
  • In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. -- Voltaire
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  • Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. -- Boris Pasternak
  • No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament. -- William Tyndale
  • The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. -- Saint Augustine
  • Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. -- Samuel Butler
  • Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ. -- Michael Horton
  • I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples. -- James E. Faust
  • If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage. -- George Carey
  • Faithfully obeying God's commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen to the sacrament prayers and worthily partake of the bread and water. -- David A. Bednar
  • Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present. -- William Tyndale
  • As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present. -- Martin Chemnitz
  • I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman. -- Bill Frist
  • Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field. -- Lou Holtz
  • Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament. -- Sally Quinn
  • Sexuality is a sacrament. -- Starhawk
  • Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament. -- John Milton
  • Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. -- Oscar Wilde
  • The sacrament of marriage is based on a man and woman. -- Newt Gingrich
  • Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us. -- Pope Francis
  • A sacrament by virtue of which each imparts nothing but vexations to the other. -- Honore de Balzac
  • making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament. -- May Sarton
  • Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. -- Thomas Ligotti
  • To celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation means to be wrapped in a warm embrace. -- Pope Francis
  • I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance. -- Pope Francis
  • Rest fixed most things. Sleep was my sweet reward. I treated bedtime as both incentive and sacrament. -- Aspen Matis
  • Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness -- Bill Moyers
  • The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament. -- Monica Baldwin
  • Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence. -- Edward M Hays
  • Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life. -- Emily Dickinson
  • Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge. -- Kathleen McGowan
  • Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us. -- Pope John Paul II
  • If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning. -- Carter Heyward
  • Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper. -- Kathleen Dowling Singh
  • That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser -- Diana Gabaldon
  • A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up. -- Jodi Picoult
  • Married couples, may we never forget that when attacks come the grace of the sacrament is eternally stronger than we are. -- Mark Hart
  • Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament. -- Martin Buber
  • Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. -- Oscar Wilde
  • And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament. -- R.L. LaFevers
  • In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same. -- John E. Hines
  • From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy. -- Bernard Berenson
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